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- package HTML::Tree;
-
- =head1 NAME
-
- HTML::Tree - overview of HTML::TreeBuilder et al
-
- =head1 VERSION
-
- 3.23
-
- =cut
-
- # HTML::Tree is basically just a happy alias to HTML::TreeBuilder.
- use HTML::TreeBuilder ();
-
- use vars qw( $VERSION );
- $VERSION = 3.23;
-
- =head1 SYNOPSIS
-
- use HTML::TreeBuilder;
- my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new();
- $tree->parse_file($filename);
-
- # Then do something with the tree, using HTML::Element
- # methods -- for example:
-
- $tree->dump
-
- # Finally:
-
- $tree->delete;
-
- =cut
-
- sub new {
- shift; unshift @_, 'HTML::TreeBuilder';
- goto &HTML::TreeBuilder::new;
- }
- sub new_from_file {
- shift; unshift @_, 'HTML::TreeBuilder';
- goto &HTML::TreeBuilder::new_from_file;
- }
- sub new_from_content {
- shift; unshift @_, 'HTML::TreeBuilder';
- goto &HTML::TreeBuilder::new_from_content;
- }
-
- =head1 DESCRIPTION
-
- HTML-Tree is a suite of Perl modules for making parse trees out of
- HTML source. It consists of mainly two modules, whose documentation
- you should refer to: L<HTML::TreeBuilder|HTML::TreeBuilder>
- and L<HTML::Element|HTML::Element>.
-
- HTML::TreeBuilder is the module that builds the parse trees. (It uses
- HTML::Parser to do the work of breaking the HTML up into tokens.)
-
- The tree that TreeBuilder builds for you is made up of objects of the
- class HTML::Element.
-
- If you find that you do not properly understand the documentation
- for HTML::TreeBuilder and HTML::Element, it may be because you are
- unfamiliar with tree-shaped data structures, or with object-oriented
- modules in general. Sean Burke has written some articles for
- I<The Perl Journal> (C<www.tpj.com>) that seek to provide that background.
- The full text of those articles is contained in this distribution, as:
-
- =over 4
-
- =item L<HTML::Tree::AboutObjects|HTML::Tree::AboutObjects>
-
- "User's View of Object-Oriented Modules" from TPJ17.
-
- =item L<HTML::Tree::AboutTrees|HTML::Tree::AboutTrees>
-
- "Trees" from TPJ18
-
- =item L<HTML::Tree::Scanning|HTML::Tree::Scanning>
-
- "Scanning HTML" from TPJ19
-
- =back
-
- Readers already familiar with object-oriented modules and tree-shaped
- data structures should read just the last article. Readers without
- that background should read the first, then the second, and then the
- third.
-
- =head1 SUPPORT
-
- You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
-
- perldoc HTML::Tree
-
- You can also look for information at:
-
- =over 4
-
- =item * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
-
- L<http://annocpan.org/dist/HTML-Tree>
-
- =item * CPAN Ratings
-
- L<http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/HTML-Tree>
-
- =item * RT: CPAN's request tracker
-
- L<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=HTML-Tree>
-
- =item * Search CPAN
-
- L<http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Tree>
-
- =back
-
- =head1 SEE ALSO
-
- L<HTML::TreeBuilder>, L<HTML::Element>, L<HTML::Tagset>,
- L<HTML::Parser>, L<HTML::DOMbo>
-
- The book I<Perl & LWP> by Sean M. Burke published by
- O'Reilly and Associates, 2002. ISBN: 0-596-00178-9
-
- It has several chapters to do with HTML processing in general,
- and HTML-Tree specifically. There's more info at:
-
- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perllwp/
-
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596001789
-
- =head1 SOURCE REPOSITORY
-
- HTML::Tree is maintained in Subversion hosted at perl.org.
-
- http://svn.perl.org/modules/HTML-Tree
-
- The latest development work is always at:
-
- http://svn.perl.org/modules/HTML-Tree/trunk
-
- Any patches sent should be diffed against this repository.
-
- =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
-
- Thanks to Gisle Aas, Sean Burke and Andy Lester for their original work.
-
- Thanks to Chicago Perl Mongers (http://chicago.pm.org) for their
- patches submitted to HTML::Tree as part of the Phalanx project
- (http://qa.perl.org/phalanx).
-
- Thanks to the following people for additional patches and documentation:
- Terrence Brannon, Gordon Lack, Chris Madsen and Ricardo Signes.
-
- =head1 AUTHOR
-
- Original HTML-Tree author Gisle Aas. Handed off to Sean M. Burke.
- and Andy Lester. Currently maintained by Pete Krawczyk
- C<< <petek@cpan.org> >>.
-
- =head1 COPYRIGHT
-
- Copyright 1995-1998 Gisle Aas; 1999-2004 Sean M. Burke;
- 2005 Andy Lester; 2006 Pete Krawczyk. (Except the articles
- contained in HTML::Tree::AboutObjects, HTML::Tree::AboutTrees, and
- HTML::Tree::Scanning, which are all copyright 2000 The Perl Journal.)
-
- Except for those three TPJ articles, the whole HTML-Tree distribution,
- of which this file is a part, is free software; you can redistribute
- it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
-
- Those three TPJ articles may be distributed under the same terms as
- Perl itself.
-
- The programs in this library are distributed in the hope that they
- will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied
- warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
-
- =cut
-
- 1;
-